I happen to disagree. From my experience as the maintainer of PCRE for z/OS,
most installations that I have encountered use IBM037, regardless of what IBM
wants you to believe. And BTW, this includes my test bed, which is a bona fide
system rented from IBM.Zeev Atlas
From: Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com>
To: Perl5 Porters <perl5-port...@perl.org>; "perl-mvs@perl.org"
<perl-mvs@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:40 PM
Subject: RFC: Don't generate EBCDIC non-1047 tables
Perl is supposed to work with code page 047 and POSIX-BC, but we haven't
had any reports of such usage in a very long time.
I propose commenting out the code that generates the tables for these
two code pages until and if someone actually wants to use them.
The underlying code has changed so that only one place has to change to
accomplish this, and to reverse it should the need arise.
By not generating the tables, we speed up some regens when needed, and
the disk space used in the distribution is smaller.
